Investment Team Voices

Perspectives on Emerging Markets Opportunity

Nick Niziolek, Dennis Cogan, Paul Ryndak, Kyle Ruge
July 5, 2024

Calamos Evolving World Growth Fund outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets Index for the quarter and YTD. We built exposure to attractive businesses by investing in convertible structures that are less volatile than their underlying equities while participating in the stock market’s upside.

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International Growth Opportunities in Focus

Nick Niziolek, Dennis Cogan, Paul Ryndak, Kyle Ruge
July 5, 2024

Calamos International Growth Fund’s returns exceeded the MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index for the quarter and YTD. Find out how key positioning themes within Japan, industrials, and India contributed to the fund’s strong showing.

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The Sweet Spot of Disinflationary Growth

Nick Niziolek, Dennis Cogan, Paul Ryndak, Kyle Ruge
April 4, 2024

Our team’s investment framework incorporates top-down elements to help guide our bottom-up research. Through a thematic lens, we pay close attention to macroeconomic conditions to understand the global environment and identify potential inflection points. For example, our approach to AI focuses on the entire ecosystem, including industrials and technology companies.

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Headwinds to Tailwinds: An Improved Horizon for Overseas Markets

Nick Niziolek, Dennis Cogan, Paul Ryndak, Kyle Ruge
January 4, 2024

Overseas markets have typically experienced their strongest relative performance during periods of US dollar weakness. The Calamos global investment team believes we are in the early innings of a weak-dollar cycle. Moreover, many overseas economies are in the earlier stages of their reopening cycles, and a plethora of economic reforms are providing support in emerging markets.

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Global Investment Themes Spotlight, 3Q 2023

Nick Niziolek, Dennis Cogan, Paul Ryndak, Kyle Ruge
October 5, 2023

In this adaptation from our recent commentary, “3Q 2023 Global Investment Theme Spotlight,” we highlight important investment ideas based on India’s pro-growth policies, promising obesity treatments, China’s electric vehicle industry, and energy trends.

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The Case for Emerging Markets Is Strong

Nick Niziolek, Dennis Cogan, Paul Ryndak, Kyle Ruge
April 3, 2023

The Calamos Global Equity Team discuss the opportunities of ASEAN reopening, nearshoring and friendshoring. They also explain why the fundamentals of emerging market banks may make them more stable than banks in developed markets.

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Calamos Investment Team Outlooks, January 2023

January 3, 2023

The Calamos investment teams are finding cause for cautious optimism as inflationary headwinds weaken. Macro themes and valuations will remain important in 2023, but we anticipate markets to expand their focus on company fundamentals, providing a tailwind for our research-driven approaches.

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